Decisive Fleet Battle (1)

6:17 a.m. on August 1. Off the Belfort Archipelago.

The deck of the SDS Horizon was crowded and chaotic, packed with wyverns and people.

"Raise the elevator!"

"Over here! Bring an aerial bomb to Wyvern No. 3!"

"Machine-gun check complete! Wyverns 1 through 7, cleared for launch!"

On deck, it was difficult to hold a long conversation over the noise of people and wyverns running about and the powerful wind.

As a result, the soldiers communicated in short, rapid exchanges. Beyond the soldiers waving glow sticks and lining up the wyverns for launch in orderly rows, the rising sun could be seen.

Amid the greatest confusion the deck had ever seen, Victor, squadron leader of the Second Wyvern Air Wing, calmly gazed out across the sea.

'Once the battle begins, cling to the enemy as stubbornly as possible.'

The order he had received was very simple...